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Revised chat input placeholder text #256554

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66f97f5
Revised chat input placeholder text
eli-w-king Jul 17, 2025
67538c9
revised placeholder text and removed @ button in ask mode
eli-w-king Jul 18, 2025
4a59c39
Merge branch 'main' into eli/chat-placeholder-instructions
eli-w-king Jul 18, 2025
305343f
Merge branch 'main' into eli/chat-placeholder-instructions
justschen Jul 25, 2025
1e45d47
fix merge conflict
justschen Jul 25, 2025
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/actions/chatActions.ts
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Expand Up @@ -915,6 +915,7 @@ export function registerChatActions() {
id: MenuId.ChatExecute,
when: ContextKeyExpr.and(
ChatContextKeys.chatModeKind.isEqualTo(ChatModeKind.Ask),
ContextKeyExpr.not('config.chat.emptyChatState.enabled'),
ChatContextKeys.lockedToCodingAgent.negate()
),
group: 'navigation',
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7 changes: 1 addition & 6 deletions src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/contrib/chatInputEditorContrib.ts
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Expand Up @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import { IChatAgentCommand, IChatAgentData, IChatAgentService } from '../../comm
import { chatSlashCommandBackground, chatSlashCommandForeground } from '../../common/chatColors.js';
import { ChatRequestAgentPart, ChatRequestAgentSubcommandPart, ChatRequestSlashCommandPart, ChatRequestSlashPromptPart, ChatRequestTextPart, ChatRequestToolPart, ChatRequestToolSetPart, IParsedChatRequestPart, chatAgentLeader, chatSubcommandLeader } from '../../common/chatParserTypes.js';
import { ChatRequestParser } from '../../common/chatRequestParser.js';
import { ChatModeKind } from '../../common/constants.js';
import { IChatWidget } from '../chat.js';
import { ChatWidget } from '../chatWidget.js';
import { dynamicVariableDecorationType } from './chatDynamicVariables.js';
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -133,11 +132,7 @@ class InputEditorDecorations extends Disposable {
const mode = this.widget.input.currentModeObs.get();
let description = mode.description.get();
if (this.configurationService.getValue<boolean>('chat.emptyChatState.enabled')) {
if (mode.kind === ChatModeKind.Ask) {
description += ` ${localize('askPlaceholderHint', "# to add context, @ for extensions, / for commands")}`;
} else if (mode.kind === ChatModeKind.Edit || mode.kind === ChatModeKind.Agent) {
description += ` ${localize('editPlaceholderHint', "# to add context")}`;
}
description = localize('chatPlaceholderHint', "Add Context (#), Extensions (@), Commands (/)");
}

const decoration: IDecorationOptions[] = [
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/common/chatModes.ts
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Expand Up @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ export class BuiltinChatMode implements IChatMode {
export namespace ChatMode {
export const Ask = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Ask, 'Ask', localize('chatDescription', "Ask a question."));
export const Edit = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Edit, 'Edit', localize('editsDescription', "Edit files."));
export const Agent = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Agent, 'Agent', localize('agentDescription', "Build autonomously."));
export const Agent = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Agent, 'Agent', localize('agentDescription', "Provide instructions."));
}

export function isBuiltinChatMode(mode: IChatMode): boolean {
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